[Info-vax] Does the HPE hobbyist program still exist ?, was: Re: VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Dave Froble]

On 6/24/2019 1:11 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-06-24, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 6/24/2019 8:30 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> For example, if someone were to submit a security issue which affected
>>> Itanium VMS, does HPE still have the VMS people to fix it ?
>>
>> It was my impression that support work had been transferred to VSI?
>>
>
> I thought that was front-line support only and that any issues in
> HPE VMS were still fixed by HPE VMS Engineering.

I will admit that I do not know the details.

Still, if there is a bug, then VSI will be fixing it in their stuff, 
and, unless HP was a complete dolt (well, that is still possible) they 
got some stipulation that they can have access to VSI fixes.  They were 
sort of in the driver's seat on what VSI got, right?  So, I'd guess that 
HPe might just tell VSI about the problem, and ask for a copy of the fix 
when it's available.  Then just plug it in (fixed) by HPe people.

:-)

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